betrothment

Thus, in the case before us, the betrothment rests upon what God vouchsafes along with it, inasmuch as thereby only does it become a true betrothment.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Then the Bishop of Lescar celebrated the betrothment, that same day, in the Château de Monclar.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

From the time of her betrothment to Mr. Willet, a new life seemed born in her spirit and a new beauty stamped upon her countenance.

From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

He always spoke of Roy with seriousness and respect, confessing voluntarily, time and again, his own moral and intellectual inferiority to his cousin, and scrupulously keeping her betrothment before Jessie's mind.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

And when he gave her the kiss of betrothment her lips grew white.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne